The Scanlon Foundation has launched an online survey — Refugee Experiences in Australia Study.
By sharing your experience you can help to improve the settlement and integration journey for refugees and humanitarian entrants who come to Australia in the future.
The survey is available online and in Arabic, Dari/Persian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Burmese, Karen, Chin Haka, Swahili, Nepali, Hazaragi and Tigrinya.
Who is doing this research?
In Australia people are asked questions in surveys all the time to help improve services. This survey is being conducted by the Social Research Centre in partnership with the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute (Scanlon Foundation).
The Scanlon Foundation ( www.scanlonfoundation.org.au ) supports research to understand the challenges faced by migrants in Australia. The Social Research Centre (www.srcentre.com.au) is an independent Australian social research organisation based in Melbourne owned by Australian National University (ANU).
The Australia@2015 survey was a study by the Scanlon Foundation and Monash University running between September 2015 and February 2016 and aimed to further understand sub-groups of the population including refugee and humanitarian migrants.
The report is available here https://scanlonfoundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Au@2015-final.pdf where the full report appears.
What is the research about?
The research aims to capture your experience of settling and integrating in Australia, views on belonging and connection and how you have been supported since arriving in Australia.
What is involved with the survey?
The survey is presented online and for most questions, you will be asked to choose your response from a list of options. Occasionally you might be asked to type a short response.
The survey will be available in Arabic, Dari/Persian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Burmese, Karen, Chin Haka, Swahili, Nepali, Hazaragi and Tigrinya. We have provided translations on the survey landing page for participants to request a telephone interviewer with an interpreter. These languages include Persian, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Somali, Pashto, Oromo, Tibetan, Kurdish, Urdu, Amhari, Kinyarwanda, Dinka, Armenian, Turkish, Kirundi, Spanish.
If you would like to express your interest in completing the survey in your language, please call 1800 297 015 or email voices@srcentre.com.au to arrange a call with an interpreter.
Who is being interviewed?
As part of this research, we are speaking to other humanitarian entrants and refugees across Australia who have arrived within the last 10 years, to understand how it was for them to settle in Australia.
To participate in the research, you must:
- be over the age of 18 years a permanent resident and currently living in Australia as of the date of interview have been granted a refugee or non-refugee humanitarian visa between 1 June 2011 and 31 December 2021. This includes those who may have subsequently changed status (e.g., became citizens). You do need not be the primary applicant and may be a family member who was granted the same visa as a secondary applicant.
What about my privacy?
All information you provide is confidential and is used for research purposes only – this means your details will not be shared with anyone who is not in the research team. Any information used in reporting will be anonymous – meaning your name and any information specific to you will not be used. Your personal information will not be shared with the Australian Government.
Click on a link below for more information and to commence the survey:
| English | |
| دری/فارسی | آزرگی |
| ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ | العربية |
| မြန်မာ | ကညီကျိ |
| Chin Haka | Kiswahili |
| नेपाली | ትግርኛ |
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